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The Legend of the Yule Cat

The Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn or Jólaköttur) is a monster from Icelandic folklore, a huge and vicious cat said to lurk about the snowy countryside during Christmastime and eat people who had not received new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve. 

The threat of being eaten by the Yule Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers to finish processing the autumn wool before Christmas. The ones who took part in the work would be rewarded with new clothes, but the others would get nothing and thus be preyed upon by the monstrous cat.

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#knit fast or be eaten dammit!

this is such a freakishly specific punishment

The Cat of Yule! / The Cat of Yule! / Will gobble you up / If you don’t finish your wool!

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